U.S. Senate race: McCaskill will protect Medicare

Tom Buyan

Springfield

As Missourians, protecting and strengthening Medicare and Social Security should be our number one concern. I am retired and I have served in the military like my brother and many of my friends. I am pleased and proud that Claire McCaskill has stood with President Obama and other Democrats in making the issue of persevering Social Security and Medicare one of their major priorities.

Claire's opponent Todd Akin has another plan for Social Security and Medicare. He wants to privatize Social Security and turn Medicare into a government voucher program. It does not take any imagination that this would end these programs as we know them today.

But we do have an opportunity to reject Todd Akin's extreme and destructive right-wing agenda. We can send Claire McCaskill back to the U.S. Senate in November to continue to fight for all Missourians, and keep Social Security and Medicare for seniors.

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U.S. Senate race: McCaskill will protect Medicare

Springfield As Missourians, protecting and strengthening Medicare and Social Security should be our number one concern. I am retired and I have served in the military like my brother and many of my